Gate.



G. W. MILLER.

GATE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1913.

1,081,395, Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

WITNESSES INVENT GW MlLL'EJX ATTORNEY.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WILLIAM MILLER, 01? TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALBERT E. DYMENT, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

GATE.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WILLIAM MILLER, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of 681 Broadway avenue, in the city of Toronto, Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, advertising agent, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in gates as described in the present specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially in the novel means by which a plate is securely locked in place on a wire gate.

The object of the invention is to produce a gate or fence which can be utilized as an advertising medium and generally to produce a light, cheap and durable gate.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of th front of a gate showing the looking members in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a view of the back of the gate showing the locking means employed. Fig. 3 is a front detail of the locking device. Fig. 4 is a view in detail of the locking device as shown in Fig. 3.

Like numerals of reference indicate cor responding parts in each figure.

1 is a gate frame similar to those employed in the ordinary wire gates. 2 and 3 are vertical bars forming braces to said frame and secured to the said frame 1 in any suitable manner. 4, 5, and 6 are vertical wires secured to the top and bottom of said frame. 7 and 8 are longitudinal wires secured to the ends of said frame and giving further rigidity to the gate, said wires at their intersecting points with said vertical bars and vertical wires being bent to form a means for looking as illustrated in Fig. 4.

9 is a plate preferably made of sheet iron, on which is arranged the advertising or other matter, and having its edges bent in- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 24., 1913.

Patented Dec. 16, 1913. Serial No. 780,995.

wardly as at 10, said edges having slots cut therein to register with the vertical bars 2 and 3 and the vertical wires 4, 5, and 6 and the longitudinal wires 7 and 8.

11 is a wire running around the center piece 9 inside the inturned edges 10, said wire 11 being bent outwardly as at- 12 in order to pass and partly encircle the vertical bars 2 and 3 and the vertical wires 4, 5 and 6 and the longitudinal wires 7 and 8 and thus form a look. It will be thus seen that the plate 9 is supported by the vertical bars and wires and the longitudinal wires 2 and 8 and securely locked in position by the wire 11 threaded through the curled edge of the plate and behind each vertical and each longitudinal or horizontal bar or wire forming a simple means of giving an appearance of great solidity to a light gate, and at the same time affording space for advertising or other matter.

\Vhat I claim is 1. A gate comprising a frame, a plurality of vertical bars secured to said frame, a plurality of vertical wires secured to said frame, a plurality of horizontal wires secured to said frame, a plate of sheet material having curled edges and a wire string through said edges and behind said vertical and horizontal bars and wires.

2. A gate comprising a frame, a plurality of vertical bars and wires secured to said frame, a plurality of horizontal wires secured to said frame and slightly offset behind said vertical bars and said vertical wires, a suitable center plate secured in center of said frame and having curled edges cut away at said bars and wires and a wire string through said curled edge and behind said bars and wires.

Signed at the city of Toronto, Ont. this 7th day of July 1913.

GEORGE VILLIAM MILLER.

VVitne-sses W. G. HAMMOND, W. FLEMING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

